The Robin Hood Tax is a galvanizing issue for this historical moment, and it's a winnable fight to boot. It is a financial transaction tax that takes .05% from Wall Street transactions. Just .05% creates $350 Billion dollars a year in new revenue for America. $350 Billion pays for universal healthcare, $350 Billion ends students debt, $350 Billion funds a green jobs program and much much more.

The Robin Hood Tax is movement legislation. It is a long-term fight for a more just world. The National Nurses Union, Transit Workers United, Vocal NY, Act UP and Occupy are throwing our collective weight behind this issue on Sept. 17th to begin to chart a vision forward out of perpetual Environmental and Economic Crisis.

The need for a Financial Transaction Tax - especially when the rest of us pay taxes on just about everything, is really a total no-brainer for most people but as our government has been so totally captured by Wall Street, then such obvious ideas do not get a look in. One of the reasons for the refusal to pay a tiny percentage of tax on financial transactions, is that it could reveal the extent of High Frequency Trading transactions and their potentially highly fraudulent nature.

Irrespective of who wins the next Potus race, we need people like Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to hold Wall Street to account, because the vast majority of Congress, D&R - won't do it because their mouths are so stuffed with gold or they are on a promise for lucrative directorship jobs when they leave Congress. It's all so sickening and for example - http://www.nationofchange.org/myths-and-facts-about-koch-brothers-1409673365